New pics of Game of Thrones set in Šibenik, Daenerys and Daario photographed on set, and more

After a relatively quiet weekend, filming of Game of Thrones season 5 resumes this week.

We recently posted some images of a Game of Thrones set undergoing construction at St. John’s Fortress in Šibenik, Croatia. Reader wyshy has kindly shared some new images of the set with us.

Mild spoilers after the cut.

It was speculated that the set could be used as a slave market or a small-scale fighting pit. We can now see that the ring in the middle has been filled with grit/sand, and is surrounded by what would seem to be braziers of some sort. Upright posts also line one side of the ring. Perhaps they could be used to chain slaves to?

A lucky fan managed to get a photograph in Belfast airport with cast members Iain Glen and Sophie Turner.

Carice van Houten tweeted today that she is returning to set to resume filming.

Seeing Iain and Sophie in the same photo I can’t help but remember this recent interview of Rose and Sophie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjFhNlW9zSo and imagine how awkward would it be if Iain ever watch it hahahaha

That’s a big imagination. Honestly, the middle section looks like nothing more than a small fighting arena. All in all, it clearly looks like training grounds of some sorts, probably for slaves, considering the cage and the elevated altar, for slavers and buyers to look upon and judge the quality of the “merchandise.”

If I’m allowed some wilder speculation myself, I’d say the set is probably for a night scene: if all those torch holders aren’t there for mere decoration, I’d bet they’ll light them up, which would mean it’s a scene set at night.

Not certain about the dying of her hair if it is linked to the show. With Myrcella being recast then changing her hair colour is going to make it quite confusing. Not entirely sure what reason there would be for her to dye her hair to be honest. Think it may just be that she has dyed her hair for her own reasons!
Unless this is a hint that they’ve cast her as Arianne and are working her into the plot and Amy Richardson can come back as Myrcella!? Biggest swerve ever. Unfortunately, this is less likely than impossible!

Nell Tiger Free hair: It could be a wig… In the New Cast Members video her hair are at her shoulder, these one are much much longuer, difficult to beleive she can grow her hair that much in two or even three months… If yes, well, i want to know what she is eating …lol i’ll began a new regime!

Possibly. Just seems like an odd choice to make when they didn’t make much effort to disguise/change the appearance of Arya, Jaime, Theon, Tyrion ( the nose and also in the season coming up) amongst others. Can’t see her dying her hair as adding anything to the plot and could complicate things for less attentive viewers. Guess we’ll see. Still think she’ll remain blonde and Nell just fancied dying it for her own purposes.

My theory about this black hair thing: Nell is with Rosabell’s wig (I strongly believe they will give tyene a wig). That might be it, she is probably just goofing around with a fellow castmate’s wig, because i really see no other explanation.
Great to see some more pics!

Introducing a new character, which Myrcella basically is, and having her dye her hair midway through the season, when her face isn’t yet familiar, is foolish, which is why it won’t happen. The actress is just goofing around with a wig, IMO.

The head thing is to protect the wig or something like that… And there are some pictures from last year’s filming where she’s wearing the leggings under her dress so… I don’t know maybe she’s not in full costume and that’s why she’s wearing the white robe/thing? :/

Those first pictures remind me of Deepwood Motte, as in the books Asha recalls the wooden walls didn’t helped the Glovers during the Greyjoy invasion. As for the circle I don’t know… Maybe Asha/Yara isssss making some sort of queensmoot in Deepwood Motte eerrrr?

My guess is that she dyed her hair for her own reasons as someone stated before (or she is wearing a wig) and it’s totally unrelated to GOT.

Someone please tell me that Dany is not wearing that blue dress that she’s got four seasons ago under that robe!!! I’m so tired of it already and she should be wearing more royal-looking stuff if you ask me… oh and I never liked that outfit to start with since her pants look like a pair of jeans.

She was basically an extra, but yeah she was in the show. Tyrion arranged a marriage between her and Dorne in season 2 and shipped her off, it was mentioned a couple of times in season 4 as well. Going to be important in season 5.

Myrcella has been in eight episodes. Her more prominent scenes were in the second episode of the first season, “The Kingsroad”, in a Lannister breakfast scene at Winterfell where she worried over Bran and laughed at Tyrion’s jokes; and in the third episode of the second season, “What is Dead may Never Die”, in a dinner scene where she naively chatted with a traumatized Sansa.

Since she was in the background during most of the first season, you’d be forgiven to not even know of her existence by that point, but it’s difficult to miss that she was the focus of a major plot engineered by Tyrion when he was Hand of the King during Season 2. Tyrion engineered a political alliance with the Martells of Dorne by shipping Myrcella off to Dorne and betrothing her to Trystane, son of ruling Prince Doran Martell. Also, in Seasons 2, 3 and 4 Cersei often talked about Tyrion’s actions and about Myrcella. In fact, in Season 4 Cersei had quite a long scene with Oberyn Martell in which she talked about Myrcella and asked him how she was adjusting to life in Dorne, and charged him with taking back a ship as a present to her daughter when he went back home. But honestly, I’m surprised you wouldn’t know of Myrcella by Season 4.

Concerning Dany’s dress, obviously it is a new look, otherwise they wouldn’t have covered it from prying lenses. If it is the same blue/white attire I will scream, a Queen after all is suppose to be be fashionable and have an extensive wardrobe.

Ms Free is Arianne? Wow! that will throw the moral church bitches and preachers into a frenzy, HBO having a 16 year old do nude scenes. Well if Brooke can do it, so can Nell, it is the 21st century after all, why live and embrace a primitive judgemental culture, it is so passe and devolved.

She isn’t Arianne. She’s shot scenes as a blonde already. If this is actually her wig or if she’s dyed her hair then there will be some plot justification for that. (If you were being sarcastic then nvm).